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Both Lowell and Winthrop underwent many of the same changes. New pocket doors replaced old, smaller doorways to facilitate easier access, and the formerly separated food preparation areas gave way to open, airy spaces to allow for more communication between diners and staff...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dining Hall Renovations Debut in Lowell, Winthrop | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...nothing against the men's weight lifting. I know they lift more. And they have colorful nicknames like "Pocket Hercules" and cute idiosyncrasies like always wearing their lucky underpants. But there's something particularly sweet about standing next to a male colleague while America's Cheryl Haworth hoists 300 pounds plus above her head and watch him mentally calculate how many times over she could lift him. And Cheryl only took the bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women Get a Lift at the Olympic Games | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

Some of the audience had to be tethered to their third-mezzanine front-row seats, such was the excitement for the opening of "Pokemon Live." The stage show adaptation of the kiddie-cult Pokemon (Japlish for "Pocket Monsters") phenomenon has officially begun its year-long national tour at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Flying completely under critics' radar, and presented with zero irony, "Pokemon Live" reveals itself as the 21st century's version of "The Magic Flute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Pokemon Live!' Guides Us Into 21st-Century Theater | 9/21/2000 | See Source »

Without the backing of official Republican organizations, Robinson resorted to hiring staffers, out of his own pocket, to gather the 10,000 signatures necessary for his name to appear on the ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primary Turnout Hits Record Low; Kennedy, Robinson Win Easily | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...perform rent-a-cop missions like those in Kosovo dulls their fighting edge, saps morale and can lead to embarrassments like those detailed in the report. But the soldiers' protestations of ignorance of the regs don't hold up under scrutiny. NATO rules required each to carry a blue pocket card detailing how civilians were to be treated. "Use the minimum force necessary to accomplish your mission," it began. "Treat everyone, including civilians and detained hostile forces/belligerents, humanely." Even combatants aren't allowed to torture and taunt their opponents, or grope their buttocks and breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How U.S. 'Peacekeeping' Became a Reign of Terror | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

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